Thomas meikle



(No Model.)

T. MEIKLE.

COMBINED PLOW AND CULTIVAT'OR.

Patentad J an. 2, 1883,

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THOMAS MEIKLE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS MEIKLE Sz CO., OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED PLOW AND CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,871, dated January 2, 1883.

Application tiled Angust5,1SS1. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1', THOMAS MEIKLE, of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Plow and Cultivator, of which the following is a specication.

rlhis invention has for its object the con struction of a plow which may be used either as a hilling ora breaking plow.

In the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line x x. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the shovel. Fig. 4c is a perspective view of the plate or bracket. Fig. 5 is a sectional view ot'a shovel, showing the bolt and washers.

A A are the beams of the plow, which may be adjustably connected by means of bows. These bows are formed as shown, being bent upward, so as to permit the plow to ruu over the standing corn or other plants which are being cultivated. One of these bows is placed at the front end of the beam and the other near the rear end. They are made in two parts, 'B and B. The part B is widened and bifurcated at the upper end, the points being turned up, so as to receive between them the straight bar B'. These points preserve the two bars in line, and they are fastened together by a bolt'l which passes down through holes bored through both bars. The points of the bar B may he bent over, so as to embrace the bar B on all sides. These bows are secured to the beams by means of the recessed plates C, which are made with tlanges projecting from their outer and inner edges, so as to clasp the beam ot' the plow. The bows may be thus secured to the plates and the plates to the beams by a single bolt passing down through the three parts7 the bow being received in the recesses formed across and on the upper face of the plates. By shifting the bolt D which fast'ens the two bars of the bow together the beams may be adjusted nearer together or farther apart, as desired.

l have shown in Fig. 2 bows made in one piece, the horizontal portion being tted into the recesses in the plates C, and having a series of holes bored through them, such bows being in like manner attached by a single bolt passing through the horizontal portion of the bows, the plate, and the beam. Y

T-formed brackets E are attached to the beams by means ot' bolts passing through the horizontal lianges, one of these bolts that secure the brackets to the under side of the beam being the saine that secures the plate C and bows in position. The standards E E are attached adjustably by means of bolts passing through two of a series of holes formed in the vertical part of the brackets, as shown.

Wheels F are attached to standards F', and these are adjustably secured by means ot' a single bolt passing through one of a series ot' holes in the standard, and through the recessed plates G, which are formed with flanges on their upper and lower edges to receive the beam, the outer faces of the plates being recessed to receive the standards F.

When the plow is to be used for hilling, the standards E E', carrying' the plows,-are arranged opposite one another, as shown in Fig. 1. When the plow is to be used for breaking, one 'of the brackets E is moved forward and the other back, the rear and forward bolts of the brackets entering respectively the holes E2 in the beams. When this is done the lefthand plow is taken off and a right-hand one is substituted.

The shovels shown in Figs. 3 and 5 (marked H) may be used instead of the plows shown in Fig. 1. They may be attached to the open standards by means of a single bolt, I, passing through the shovel, and having on the inner face of the shovel washers K. These are formed with a ange at the top, to'hook over the upper edge ofthe shovel, with tongues on their rear face, which are received into the space in the slot ot' the open standard. The bolt I extends back through the washer K and through the slot in theopen standard, and is secured in rear of the standard by a second washer, L, which has tongues on its inner face, ljtting into the slot in the standard, so as to prevent the washer fromturning, the whole IOO A brace, N, formed as shown, Fig. 1, is at- 2. In combination with the plowbeams and tached by its long` arm N to the outer face of standards carrying the plows, the wheels atthe beam by a bolt, and to the inner face of tached to vertically-adjustable sta1idards.aud

the brace N3 having` a.y series of holes corresponding to the holes iu the horizontal part ot' the front bow, a si ngle bolt fastening the brace and bow together.

rlhe clevis O is .Lttached by a bolt passing' through the horizontal partof the bow and the brace N.

What I claim as my invention,and desire to j secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with the beams, bows, and flanged and recessed plates C, the T- formed brackets E, whereby the bow and one end of the bracket can be secured to the beam by a single bolt, substantially as set forth.

the beam bythe short arm N2, the front part of t l flanged and recessed plates G, whereby the vertically-adjustable wheel-standards may be secured to the beams by a single bolt, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with the forward bow and clevis, the brace to which the bow and elevis are secured, adjustable by a single bolt, sub` stantially as set forth.

THOMAS MEIKLE.

Witnesses:

EDMUND HEFFIELD., CH. G. STIGLITY. 

